Do you remember the days, way back when.... You'd go to church, engage in worship, pour out your heart, read the scriptures daily, find you "quiet times" with God, feed the homeless, pray for everyone and their mother, speak a heavenly language, give of your time and money, bleed, sweat, cry, and actually think about dying for Jesus? I remember those days...
Wanna hear a sad thing?
I had forgotten about those days not too long ago.
There was a time (and I'm glad to say they're back) when I would go home everyday after leaving the church office and tell myself that I just got done changing the world.
I know that sounds retarded but, think about it... We live to love God and in doing so, we find out what the heart of God is.... and the heart of God is love, love lives inside of us (God), so it's only natural that the desire of our hearts (if we love God), would be to love others. So I would come to work with this mindset of everything I did played some significant part in a bigger story even though I knew I was a small person in this very big universe. That story of course is the story of God. I wanted to believe that if I came to church, work, etc. and gave it my all, to the best of my abilities, with a heart of excellence, then I was changing the world.
EVERYTHING I DID MATTERED! AND FAILURE WAS NOT AN OPTION!
What the hell happened???
Maybe I got tired of waking up early and going to church, maybe I felt under appreciated, maybe I quit feeling the excitement that everyone around me including myself used to feel, maybe I let the thought of all this (Christianity) was just a big pile of crap.
I don't know...
But I know this.
I wanna change the world, I need to change the world... You know what? I AM CHANGING THE WORLD. Every song I write, every set I play with the band, every hand I shake, person I hug, smile at, feed, listen to, care for, pray for, cry for, plead for, sweat for, fight for, friend I make, logo I design, podcast I make, blog I type, story I tell, ministry I work for, etc. etc. etc.
I AM CHANGING THE WORLD.
You know where it starts? ...It starts with God, and looks a lot like love.
Love God
Love People
Change The World...
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2 comments:
I love what you said about changing the world and that is what we need to do as children of the King! I am a youth pastor myself and JUST talked about this same topic last wed! We had each kid fill out how they are going to change the world for Christ in their way & putting it up on a bulletin board. I was wondering if it would be possible to use the 'ready to change the world' logo? If not, it is totally cool but it just would fit so perfectly with what the kids say and the logo is rad! Let me know, thanks!
Nathan
go ahead and use it
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